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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
belbbmfan:
El Calaboz, Texas
jpwagoneer1964:
Zepayahutla, Mx
MaineWriter:
Albuquerque, TX
Located on the Clear Fork of Sandies Creek, Albuquerque was once believed to have been in Wilson County. The discrepancy was cleared by a survey in 1914. The town was only two miles south of where Gonzales, Wilson, and Guadalupe counties joined. The Handbook of Texas suggests that the name was "probably" suggested by "South Texans who had fought in New Mexico under Henry H. Sibley."
Brothers-in-law Henry S. Hastings and Samuel McCracken from Mississippi are regarded as the town's first settlers. The town began in the early 1870s with official recognition coming with the opening of the post office in 1870. Thirteen short years later it was already fading into ghost-town status. The post office closed its doors briefly, reopened and then closed for good in 1883.
The fledgling town had the basic businesses to survive including a cotton gin, blacksmith, store, saloon and school, but with no railroad on the horizon, the odds were stacked against Albuquerque's survival.
It did have it's fifteen minutes of fame when John Wesley Hardin was involved in not one, but two killings.
Albuquerque's decline was attributed to the growth of nearby Union, Texas, aka Union Valley which was two miles south of Albuquerque. Eventually even the die-hard residents abandoned the town and by 1912 the town was totally deserted.
Leslie
Meryl:
Ekbalab, Mexico
belbbmfan:
Beiseker, Alberta
Where Jack and Ennis spent the night in the Siesta Motel
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